Metro Vancouver events on January 11, 2018

Free Ice Skating at Robson Square

This winter, renew a classic Vancouver tradition and enjoy some old-fashioned fun

Vancouver | Robson Square | 9:00 am to 9:00 pm | Active Life / Health | Free

Movement Culture & Tua o Te Arai Performance Workshop

This 5-day intensive is designed as an open level creative workshop for the professional performing artists and researchers in dance, theatre and visual arts.

Burnaby | Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | 9:00 am to 1:00 pm | Workshop

Bottoms Up: The Cultures of Drink in the Royal City

A look at New Westminster’s saloons, breweries, distilleries, afternoon teas, soda fountains and other drinking habits, places and stories

New Westminster | Anvil Centre | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

MOA will showcase its Amazonian collections in a significant exploration of socially and environmentally-conscious notions intrinsic to indigenous South American cultures, which have recently become innovations in International Law

Vancouver | Museum of Anthropology at UBC | 10:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Welcome Week Spring 2018

Join us for our multi-campus, week long welcome back event! The KSA's 2018 Spring Welcome Week will be Jan 8-11th at Langley(8th), Surrey(9th), Richmond (10th) and Tech(11th) Campuses

Surrey | Kwantlen Student Association | 11:00 am to 2:00 pm | Lecture

Canyon Lights by Capilano Suspension Bridge Park

In response to popular demand, the 12th season of Canyon Lights at Capilano Suspension Bridge Park has been extended. From November 23 to January 28 the park is alive with lights, lights and more lights!

North Vancouver | Capilano Suspension Bridge Park | 11:00 am to 9:00 pm | Family

Some Spontaneous Particulars: Vanessa Brown, Heide Hinrichs, Kathleen Ritter

This exhibition presents never-before exhibited work by three artists whose research-based practices have drawn them to the work of historical women artists Marianne Brandt, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Mina Loy

Vancouver | Access Gallery | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Memory - History - Story Exhibition

This year’s teaching exhibition is a celebration of the first people of our country. Memory - History - Story is an exploration of our indigenous artists, their perspectives and voices, through the lens of Indigenous principles of learning.

North Vancouver | Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art | 12:00 am to 5:00 pm | Exhibition

Una giornata particolare (A Special Day ) by IFF Italian Film Festival and Vancouver International Film Festival

Italian cinema dream team Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni are cast against glamorous type and deliver two of the finest performances of their careers in this moving, quietly subversive drama from Ettore Scola

Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 2:15 pm to 5:15 pm | Film

Taste BC 2018

Get ready for the province's biggest wine tasting on January 11th 2018 at the Pan Pacific Vancouver

Vancouver | Pan Pacific Vancouver | 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm | Food / Wine

Chinese Lantern Festival

Experience Vancouver in a whole new light in this 5-week celebration of Chinese culture featuring massive lanterns, amazing performances, and incredible food

Vancouver | PNE/Playland | 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Festival

Vancouver Unreal Engine 4 Meetup

Come and hang out with other UE4 devs, programmers, designers, artists, and animators!

Vancouver | EXP Restaurant + Bar | 6:00 pm to 10:30 pm | Workshop | Free

Dr Jennifer Lofkrantz - Local Responses to Boko Haram

Managing a Crisis, with Dr Jennifer Lofkrantz from the American University of Nigeria

Vancouver | SFU Vancouver | 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Lecture

Lasciati andare (Let Yourself Go) by IFF Italian Film Festival and Vancouver International Film Festival

Elia (Toni Servillo, The Great Beauty) is a Jewish psychoanalyst from a purely Freudian school of thought. Due to his austere and detached manner, he is reputed for immediately generating awe in his patients

Vancouver | Vancity Theatre | 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Film

CAG Exhibition Preview: Brent Wadden: Two Scores

Commencing 2018, the Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in a public institution by Canadian artist Brent Wadden

Vancouver | Contemporary Art Gallery | 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm | Exhibition | Free

David Bowie 2nd Annual Tribute

David Bowie 2nd Annual Tribute Thursday, January 11 at the Biltmore Cabaret

Vancouver | The Biltmore Cabaret | 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Music

The Fated Five and Dance Evolution

A show about a group of teenagers who venture into the woods and end up sucked into a world of horror!

New Westminster | Massey Theatre | 7:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Performing Arts

Theatre series. Misery

Stephen King’s chilling thriller By William Goldman. Based on the novel by Stephen King

Surrey | Surrey Arts Centre | 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm | Theatre

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

The beloved fairy-tale musical returns. "Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme.” Can Belle teach the Beast to love, before it is too late?

Vancouver | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Musical

Steelin' In The Years

Steelin’ In The Years gathers together some of the most accomplished West Coast musicians, all of whom possess a common affection for the music of Steely Dan

West Vancouver | Kay Meek Centre for the Performing Arts | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm | Music

Stage43 Presents: The Fantasticks

A funny, romantic musical about a boy, a girl and their parents who try to keep them apart - the longest running musical in the world!

Coquitlam | Evergreen Cultural Centre | 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Theatre

Corb Lund & Ian Tyson

An Evening of Conversation, Stories, & Song

Vancouver | The Vogue Theatre | 8:00 pm to 10:45 pm | Music

Hot Brown Honey. Briefs Factory

Hot Brown Honey turns up the heat, delivering lashings of sass and a hot pinch of empowerment in the smash-hit that took the Edinburgh Fringe by storm

Vancouver | York Theatre | 8:00 pm to 9:20 pm | Performing Arts

The Pipeline Project

A provocative and personal account of the ongoing cultural battles over pipelines in BC. Three actor writers – two Indigenous and one white – come together to create a play about the political conflicts surrounding Canada’s oil industry

Vancouver | Firehall Arts Centre | 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm | Performing Arts